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Manit0u Poland17652 Posts 21 hours ago #18301 News from the front: Russians around Pokrovsk might be exhausted. Ukrainian commander reports that their attacks are losing intensity as the defenders hold northern parts of the city. Intercepted calls reveal that hunger is ravaging Russian frontline units. Deteriorating logistics mean that there's food and water shortages and people are losing weight rapidly. Starlink now requires terminal registration which is not available in Russia so they've effectively lost access to it, severely degrading their communications and coordination capabilities.

Jankisa Croatia1125 Posts 11 hours ago #18302 I wonder why the Starlink method they just used recently wasn't done before, could have prevented a lot of shitty things if it was, oh well, better late then ever and, gasp, good on Musk for letting SpaceX do it, a rare W in his column. The temperatures in Kyiv are still below -5 during the day, from people I talk to even in Lviv it's not a great situation, but, then again, I don't hear people despairing, they are used to it by now, still, obligatory fuck those war criminal Russian pieces of shit and admiration to the Ukrainian civilian population, they really suffered immensely and haven't budged, amazing people. Russia does slowly seem to be running out of options, it seems like they, once again, used the winter period of lul in combat operations to intensify their terrorist activities.

Excludos Norway8232 Posts 10 hours ago #18303 One of the reasons, as I understand it, was simply that Ukraine had no control over their own Starlinks. A lot of the purchases hadn't even gone through official channels. Since the front lines are so close, it wasn't really possible to turn off only one side's before they could collect a whitelist Musk, or even Starlink, wasn't the one who chose this. They deliberately gave up control to the US gov in this matter. And they've been working closely with Ukraine to make this happen for a while now

Billyboy 1443 Posts 9 hours ago #18304 It is pretty crazy how little is changing on the front lines these days. I mean it has been not much for a long time but now it has basically stopped. The bloggers almost don't talk about the front lines anymore. It is just the drone strikes from Ukraine and Missiles from Russia.

Jankisa Croatia1125 Posts 9 hours ago #18305 Well, considering the temperatures hitting Ukraine over the last month or so (well, more or less the whole northern hemisphere) it's very hard to maintain any sort of offensive operations. It's not just the men who can't really fight for a long time in -10 or worse cold, I'd be willing to bet that the fuel in a lot of the engines on both sides freezes over, so mechanized attacks can't really be done too much either. Yes, the ground freezes over so tanks and APCs can move over it again, however, I believe that most of these winter months have not seen much movement during this war, this one even more so since the temperatures have been so unforgiving.

KwarK United States43553 Posts 8 hours ago #18306 I agree. APCs are in short supply at this point, ground is mostly taken by infantry rushing and digging in. Frozen ground is a problem there.

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